Beer Label Censorship
Shelton Brothers Challenge Maine Censorship of Artistic Beer Labels PORTLAND—Today, the Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a case against government censorship. The MCLU represents Daniel Shelton, a specialty beer distributor who was refused permission to sell three beers because the State deemed their labels…
Shelton Brothers Does Cider
Well, sure, we’ve been asked to bring in ciders before, but we didn’t much like the ones we tried and figured we’d stick to beer. Three or four years ago, however, we started to hear a bit of a buzz about traditional English farmhouse cider,…
“He Considers Beer a Matter of Great Import”
(Reprinted from the New York Daily News article by Ron Givens, April 04, 2006) For Dan Shelton, the world can be neatly divided into “good beer” and “industrial beer.”The good stuff is complex, while the industrial stuff is like water. The good stuff is made…
State of the Union
My fellow Americans . . .At first I was upset and even a little angry when Brother Will informed me that, after he wrote up a snappy new intro for our home page, he didn’t hit ‘preview,’ but instead hit ‘publish’ – thereby inadvertently…
Happy New Year
Greetings and best wishes to all for the new year! 2006 will mark the tenth anniversary for Shelton Brothers, and we plan to celebrate, big time. What does that mean to you? Plenty. We’ve got a bunch of new beers coming, from such far-flung places…
